Mah knee meks da velt go roundt!

It only took until the calendar year after next, and for some reason Open And Accountable Williams Government didn't issue a press release to draw any attention to the fact, and, unlike the tabular format of previous years, it's in a harder-to-use-and-number-crunch PDF format, but, political financing data has finally been released... for the year 2006!

(Paul, just because the legislation gives you nine months, don't mean you gotta take nine months. Openness! Accountability!)

There's tons and tonnes of HappyFun to be had with the report, but for now, a quick measure of how passionately the then-sitting MHAs felt about their own causes. The table below shows how much each gave to their parties, and in how many separate donations.

As it was a transition year, you will notice both recent NDP MHAs for Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi are represented, Jack Harris especially well so.

The very keenly-eyed will notice two names missing.

MHA                 Party    Total $   #
Harris, Jack          NDP   $5,600.00  2
O'Brien, Kevin         PC   $1,825.00  4
Ottenheimer, John      PC   $1,750.00  3
Reid, Gerry           Lib   $1,595.00  6
Jackman, Clyde         PC   $1,300.00  5
Byrne, Jack            PC   $1,218.40  5
Jones, Yvonne         Lib   $1,180.00  4
Marshall, Elizabeth    PC   $1,150.00  4
Hedderson, Tom         PC   $1,100.00  2
Thistle, Anna         Lib   $1,057.50  4
Johnson, Charlene      PC   $1,000.00  3
Hodder, Harvey         PC     $950.00  4
Butler, Roland        Lib     $870.00  4
Burke, Joan            PC     $850.00  3
Collins, Felix         PC     $850.00  3
Forsey, Clayton        PC     $850.00  3
French, Terry          PC     $850.00  3
Goudie, Katherine      PC     $850.00  3
Harding, Harry         PC     $850.00  3
Hickey, John           PC     $850.00  3
Hodder, James          PC     $850.00  3
Hunter, Ray            PC     $850.00  3
Osborne, Tom           PC     $850.00  3
Rideout, Thomas        PC     $850.00  3
Ridgely, Bob           PC     $850.00  3
Skinner, Shawn         PC     $850.00  3
Wiseman, Ross          PC     $850.00  3
Langdon, Oliver       Lib     $730.00  5
Denine, Dave           PC     $700.00  2
Dunderdale, Kathy      PC     $700.00  2
Osborne, Sheila        PC     $700.00  2
Whalen, Dianne         PC     $700.00  2
Joyce, Eddie          Lib     $620.00  5
Sullivan, Loyola       PC     $600.00  2
Williams, Daniel       PC     $550.00  2
Parsons, Kelvin       Lib     $525.00  4
Sweeney, George       Lib     $490.00  4
Michael, Lorraine     NDP     $470.00  2
Fitzgerald, Roger      PC     $400.00  2
Shelley, Paul          PC     $400.00  2
Taylor, Trevor         PC     $400.00  2
Young, Wallace         PC     $400.00  2
Foote, Judy           Lib     $375.00  4
Andersen, Wally       Lib     $280.00  1
Barrett, Percy        Lib     $200.00  1
Oram, Paul             PC     $150.00  1
Collins, Randy        NDP     $120.00  1

Who knows? Maybe one of these days, the Elections Office will even get around to publishing the financial reports from the six by-elections which have been held since the last-published, that being Exploits in 2005.